Amit Kara, head of United Kingdom macroeconomic forecasting at National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said: "We expect inflation to rise further over the course of this year and to reach a peak in the final quarter of 2017".

"The Bank of England caught traders off-guard on Thursday, turning what was expected to be a rather mundane affair into something far more interesting", said Oanda analyst Craig Erlam. Higher inflation is making weak wage growth worse.

Economists polled by Reuters expect April's wage growth reading to come in at 2.4% - still lagging inflation which came in at 2.7% in April and hit 2.9%, its highest in almost four years, in May. The BoE decision came hours after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for a second time this year and Chair Janet Yellen indicated she's pressing on with normalizing monetary policy.

"The economic and political uncertainty, we believe, is too great to get a consensus behind higher rates and with Kristin Forbes leaving the BoE this month, the hurdle to getting that consensus will soon be harder to achieve".

Hammond and Carney had been due to address an annual dinner for financiers in the City of London later on Thursday.

News of the split - which follows a rise in USA interest rates last night - knocked government bonds with the price of 10-year gilts dropping and their yields jumping nine basis points (0.09%) to 1.02%.

The Bank of England (BoE), led by governor Mark Carney and tasked with keeping inflation close to a 2.0-percent target, will announce its latest interest rate decision on Thursday.

The fall in the pound after last week's election could push prices yet higher, the central bank said. Now she must rely on the support of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party. The rise in political uncertainty since the General Election - and questions over the type of Brexit PM May will look to pursue - has cast a pretty big shadow over the Bank's "smooth" European Union withdrawal assumption made at last month's MPC meeting.

For now, it is willing to wait that out, arguing that to do otherwise would risk weakening already low income growth and come at the cost of higher unemployment.

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While a sitting president is unlikely to face criminal prosecution, obstruction of justice could form the basis for impeachment. Trump wrote on Twitter , in a pair of messages that ended with a reference to his campaign slogan "Make America Great Again".

Many lawmakers were visibly shaken and emotional on Wednesday as they recounted the day, and Duncan was no exception. Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer, fought a running gun battle with police before he, too, was shot and later died.

And sometimes words fail us because no words can do justice to how we feel, or what we have seen or what has happened. Security cordons were in place around the base of the tower and the ground was littered with charred debris.

After getting outscored 37-33 in the first quarter , Golden State responded by taking an 11-point lead into the break. And I did that from day one, and I just tried to stay with that". "We were really good tonight".

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The appearance before the Senate intelligence committee gave Sessions a chance to defend himself, but offered little new insight. Sessions said during his hearing he is not sure if he would be able to answer the questions in a closed session.

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According to reports in Sport24, the bid has been rejected as Real is holding out for as much as £78 million. Morata, who is valued at £70m by Madrid, is thought to be keen on a move to Premier League too.

Other lawmakers were stunned in the aftermath of the event, which raised questions about the security of members of Congress. For one minute, Congress stopped being Congress and was just a group of people sharing emotions after a very tough week.

Hodgkinson has been in the area since March, living out of his van, said Washington FBI Special Agent In Charge Tim Slater. The security details have since greatly expanded much farther than that after the fatal shooting of two Capitol officers.

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